"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment" -Ralph Waldo Emerson

05 September 2008

Hear Ye, Hear Ye!

Great news!! Thanks to PirateTeacherFriend for providing me with what will likely be my first subbing assignment! September 11th! Just think - this time last year if you had told me I would be subbing I would have laughed in your face - and yet - here I am! YAY! And the super-weird thing is that I am not really nervous. Maybe I will be that day - but not now. Not yet... Maybe I won't be - who knows?!

And so it would seem that being brave and requiring more of myself is paying off.

6 comments:

I substituted when I first graduated from college and couldn't find a job. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I substituted from kindergarten through high school. I wasn't nearly as prepared as you are and I did fine. You'll do awesome...I'm sure of it. I'm sure you'll get requested a lot. The teachers were so impressed I followed their lesson plans, I kept getting calls. One of my former teachers I subbed for told me it's rare to find a sub that actually tries to follow the lesson plan. Don't know if things have changed since the early 80's. Subbing didn't provide healh benefits and I was single, so I had to find another career, but I thoroughly enjoyed it!

TY GMOM - I am really looking forward to it - and I am all about following lesson plans. I can't imagine the arrogance of someone steamrolling over a teacher's plans in his or her own classroom. To me, they have asked me to be a steward to their room for the time they must be out and I owe it to them to do that very thing - to keep things in tact and on schedule to the best of my ability.

My daughter subbed for a year and not only learned a lot, but she also made some great contacts and wound up getting an offer the next year in the school she wanted. Have a great time. Should make for some fun posts!

Once, in high school, we had a substitute teacher and her name was "Hername." I'm not sure of the spelling, but that is the way it was pronounced - Hername. That brought a lot of laughs among the students.

"Do you have the substitute teacher today?"

"I don't know. What's her name?"

"Hername."

"Yeah, what's her name?"

"Hername."

"That's what I asked you! What's her name?"

It reminded me of Abbot and Costello's "Who's on First?" routine. lol.